Articles, Leading Stories
Reparative therapy banned in California
By Pamela Berard
California became the first state to ban licensed mental health professionals from engaging in sexual orientation change efforts (often called reparative or conversion therapy)...
DOD contracts with Magellan for counseling services
By Phyllis Hanlon
Magellan Health Services Inc. announced that as of Aug. 15 its subsidiary, Magellan Health Behavioral Health Inc., became one of several vendors to administer the Military...
VA expands support for veterans’ research, education
By Phyllis Hanlon
The wars, both recent and past, have been the cause of significant visible and invisible injuries to military personnel serving in these conflicts. As the number of returning...
Flood may have silver lining
By Catherine Robertson Souter
When Hurricane Irene tore through Vermont in the summer of 2011, it took with it the 120-year-old state hospital in Waterbury. The 52 beds lost in the flooding caused by the...
Ballot questions could impact problem gambling treatment
By Janine Weisman
Bob Breen, Ph.D., is going to vote no on Rhode Island’s statewide Questions 1 and 2 on Nov. 6. But the licensed clinical psychologist and director of Rhode Island...
Program helps service professionals
By Pamela Berard
In just three years, the Brattleboro Retreat Uniformed Service Program (USP) in Vermont has helped about 1,200 uniformed service professionals deal with issues including...
Diagnosis changes psychologist’s work, life
By Catherine Robertson Souter
Ten years ago, Michael McManmon’s life changed drastically. When the founder of a post-secondary college and employment program for young adults with learning differences was...
A presidential psychopath?
By Janine Weisman
Research has suggested politicians, especially U.S. presidents, are narcissists. But are they psychopaths too?
Successful ones share a boldness associated with...
ADHD: Research expands understanding of a complicated and common diagnosis
By Phyllis Hanlon
In the last 15 years, research into attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) has shed more light on this complicated diagnosis, reaffirming some concepts and dispelling...
Colleges focus on threat assessments
By Pamela Berard
In the aftermath of the Aurora, Colorado, movie theater shootings, the issue of students and mental health is again in the spotlight.
Kristine Bertini, Psy.D., senior...